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The basic notions of analysis for R (= a complete ordered field) are :
Informally: thinking of the terms of the sequence as approximations to the limit, the approximation gets better as you go further down the sequence.
For such a sequence we write (an) .
Informally, points close enough to p are mapped close to f(p). By a continuous function we mean one which is continuous at all points where it is defined.
If you can draw the graph of a function, you should be able to spot whether it is continuous it will not, but functions defined in complicated ways this may be very hard to decide about.
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